Word: dogs
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This year, as part of the animal research protests a "dog pound seizer" bill was introduced and only narrowly defeated in the state legislature. On other fronts a statewide referendum passed which will curb nuclear waste disposal and, some scientists fear biomedical research which generates such waste as a by product. A city referendum will appear on the November ballot to ban nuclear development and research in Cambridge...
...have repeatedly introduced legislation to limit such research. But last year the bill made the most progress, passing the state House of Representatives before getting lost in the shuffle of the Senate, and it officially died when the session ended. The specific vehicle is the attempt to repeal the "dog pound seizure act," in order to deny researchers access to captured canines and force them to purchase the more expensive lab-bred type. Harvard uses about 2500 pound dogs a year and professors say the measure would make the current level of research prohibitive by boosting animal prices tenfold...
...Rodriguez is more than a rock and roll hot dog. She has for two years promoted a wide variety of campus concerts without the assistance of House committees. Using a "pseudonym," the Performing Arts Committee. She has arranged performances simply by signing on two or three bands, getting permission to play somewhere on campus and plastering the Square with posters. While Rodriguez booked other bands more often than her own, she says matter-of-faculty that she enjoyed "not having to run into other people that were organizers." This year she played with a group called The Girl Next Door...
...WERE IN New York exactly one week ago, you might have noticed a profoundly depressing item on the front page of The New York Times. More likely, you did not. The neighbor's dog may have spirited away the morning paper, and the single column article did not even make the out of town editions...
...depicting the legendary phoenix of China. He is smitten and resolves to go to China as a sort of avian Henry Kissinger, to tell the phoenix that "American birds think Chinese birds are just swell." Finding the phoenix is the problem. Big Bird and his shaggy sidekick Barkley the Dog (played with wonderful canine verisimilitude by Brian Muehl) must locate all the landmarks depicted on the scroll; each locale provides a clue to the whereabouts of the elusive phoenix. After solving all the clues, Big Bird finds his shimmering Chinese soul mate perched in the sheltering arms of a spectacular...